December 2012

DROP PHONY SELF-IMAGES OF BEING NICE
     As a daily exercise I want you to see what a petty annoyance you are to other people. You can’t see the big ones yet; go for the little ones. You’re so compulsive, chatter-mouthing yourself, so eager to release your built-up tension over the years by being apart from Reality, that you interrupt them while they’re talking. That’s called being rude and you didn’t know you were rude. You’re to make a list, and it will be a long list of how you are a petty annoyance to other people. One little step at a time; you can’t take very much exposure at a time. How about having a sour face and manner? How about when talking, you’re talking about yourself? All these petty offenses mean that you have not even started to witness the daily unfolding of your own life and being dismayed at what you see, because you take a big sign and carry it around with you that says, “I am a nice person.” This list will give you the revelation of how utterly self-centered you are.
     Put this on your list, “When people meet me, I am doing something bad to them. I have no goodness inside to express and give to them.” Means you are spiritually asleep. You’ve never even started to allow God to replace you with him. You have a human nature, un-regenerated, and that all by itself adds to the weight on the back of everyone else. I thought you were going to be a different kind of man or woman so you’re not like the awful nature you see in other people.
     Now, reverse it and see that that’s what everyone does to you. Notice it in every single human being you meet. You absolutely must drop all your phony idealistic self-images of you being nice or them being nice.

STOP RUNNING AWAY
     Defy your old nature. The world spends all its time in running away from its own salvation. Stay home and resist all temptation to find a cure. It gets worse as it gets better. Don’t call yourself sick or well. Don’t give yourself an identity.